/ck/ - Food & Cooking

In Round 3 challenger Bell took the top score with his Habanero, Pineapple and Rosemary Tart! In the open rounds bonus contest challenger nrrwmndd !!5q13kDmTZEt came out on top and will win a secret prize that I will send him this week! The chefs who will compete in the next round after their successful entries in the open rounds are:

Bell
nrrwmndd
quaff
Sakeanon
FPM
moose
Tiki Doomer

However, in these elimination rounds the themes will change and only the best will rise on top. To prove this point, round 4 will be an elimination round where 1 challenger will have to hang up the knife and head on home. Who will rise to the occasion and escape the chop?

And now we go to the THEME for ROUND 4!

Now as this is the /ck/ Challenge and not the Chairman Gaijin Challenge, I think that it is appropriate to take in some desires given by some of the anons in the thread. One of the popular ideas was dim sum, a small item used for Chinese brunch which in English means "heart's delight." The many dishes that make up the traditional dim sum cuisine are made to pair well with a certain ingredient that has been enjoyed since time immemorial. Countless wars and dynasties were built on this ingredient that has survived for millennia due to its unique qualities and "heartwarming" effect.

So with that being said, the ROUND THEME WILL BE…..

TEA!

For this round I would like the challengers to prepare a dish that exhibits the elements of tea in a dish! There are no restrictions to the type of dish that will be made other then that the dish must exhibit the qualities of tea and that tea be used as the primary feature of the dish!

This an ELIMINATION ROUND so we shall see 1 CHALLENGER WITH THE WORST SCORE THIS ROUND BE ELIMINATED from the competition. Best of luck to all of you and may the best chefs triumph in this battle of /ck/ing!

ALLEZ CUISINE!

Also because I was late Round 4 will be extended an extra day so submissions will end on May 28th at Midnight CEST and voting will then go until the 31st.

Past Challenges: http://ckchallenge.blogspot.com/

Thread Archives:

Round 1, Thread 1 >>/ck/thread/S11988786
Round 1, Thread 2 >>/ck/thread/S12049363
Round 1 Voting Thread >>/ck/thread/S12073266

Round 2, Thread 1 >>/ck/thread/S12113070
Round 2, Thread 2 >>/ck/thread/S12148311
Round 2, Thread 3 >>/ck/thread/S12164597
Round 2 Voting Thread >>/ck/thread/S12189503

Round 3, Thread 1 >>/ck/thread/S12207392
Round 3 Voting Thread >>/ck/thread/S12291290

>>12321727
>TEA
Great, it's going to be matcha everything.

With tea I suppose only Camellia sinensis

>>12321772
I promise I will not

>>12321772
i also have something non-matcha planned

Bump

>>12322039
That's the only tea plant so I wish so

>>12321772
Then maybe just don’t blindly use matcha or desserts like what most people expect?

Reminder that using kopi luwak gets you extra points.

This looks stupid as fuck

>>12321727
How in the actual fuck did you decide fucking tea was a halfway decent theme for the first elimination round? How often do you eat tea-centric foods?

>>12327047
seems like the challenge was made by some retard that’s never watched iron chef
outside of desserts, what can people realistically do? no one is autistic enough to candy bergamot tea. a tea broth or sauce wouldn’t be a successful iron chef tier dish as it’s not centric enough
i guarantee you get a bunch of garbage earl grey cakes and then random matcha garbage

>>12327080
>some retard that’s never watched iron chef
He's actually too much Iron Chef. The problem is that this is a home cooking challenge. Nobody here is going to make a tea smoked geoduck ceviche in a fucking ice sculpture with a shooter chute that hot oolong beef broth is going to be pour down upon serving with a fucking slow smoked persimmon slaw wrapped in ti leaves with pork and butter fish.

>>12327118
Most people voted for dim sum in the poll but Tiki Doomer cried to Chairman Weeaboo because she’s not talented enough to make chink food

>>12327127
Link to poll?
From what I recall a couple anons bitched about the pepper challenge for some reason and one person kept saying to do dim sum, which is an even worse challenge than tea.

>>12327139
http://poal.me/30q5qx

The other was “mix a and b” and he didn’t even do that. Dim sum would have actually been interesting for the people who are capable.

>>12327145
>4 total votes
Fucking yikes. This challenge is a travesty. And yeah, dim sum would have been a terrible round theme; "dumplings" would have been okay, but dim sum is something you either make or you don't, and anyone who did something unique would have been voted down on challenge goals. The, "ingredient + flavor" theme would have been okay, and honestly more interesting than these single ingredient themed rounds.

>>12327188
Ingredient+flavor was bound to fail because only a select few here know what either words mean

>>12327127
Again I say tikidoomer IS the chairman. Only explination.

>>12327118
I can think of all East-Asia , The Middle East and India as cuisines that go well with tea. England, much of Europe and Southern US too have a tea culture but it is more sweet. So you have a few cuisines already tailored to tea and other ones which have sweet dishes that go with tea, mixing them and making a dished based on a tea-dish pairing is not a difficult idea con conceive
I am tempted to do a salty dish just to prove me right, but I am 90% sure that I will stick with desserts as I am a better pastry chef than a chef

>>12327145
I do not know much about DimSum, but is it not that like saying "Brunch" but with very specific dishes? With tea you can do manny things but need to find a way to make it use tea as the main ingredient, while something like DimSum would be just replicating 1:1 already existing dishes, you can try something innovative, but you will get people saying that "Oh, that is not REAL DimSum, you see...". Better to have the dishes be judges as stand-alone, instead of having a precedent to judge them and compare from.

>>12327377
based off the previous round, i'm looking forward to your dessert. I'll be doing something salty/savory with tea this round because i'm really bad with desserts.

>>12327377
>but I am 90% sure that I will stick with desserts
Yeah, before I even read any of the replies my first thought was, "I'm not going to do a dessert or anything involving matcha". I drafted a basic idea within two minutes, which is usually how I roll, for better or worse. But I'm actually going to have to do some real shopping at 3-4 different stores and google a couple techniques if I'm going to follow through with my half assed plan.

>>12327400
Jesus Christ you love sucking bells dick.

>>12327416
I plan on using Black tea, it goes better with more complex flavors and is not as overused as matcha. I tend to over spice (Curry with lots of spices, then a spiced sandwich with spiced coffee, later a tart with lots of rosemary) and with black tea I do not risk ruining it too easily
I still should take out all my tea and have a /sip/, every time I look for tea-pairings they always specify the origin, since I do not know that about my tea it would be better to come up with the pairings myself

I wonder is someone is crazy enough to do a tea-rub. I know very little about meat so I am not doing it. Tea is tangy, so lamb, maybe a Middle-eastern-style BBQ. Also, chai tea has peppermint, so something like a chai pan sauce for lean meat would be interesting and doable if you find a way to integrate the rest of spices and milk.
Two salty dishes and I have yet to come up with a dessert more interesting than just Black-tea chiffon cake with tea-infused cream, heck, I just thought of a Thai-inspired savory dish, but that one I am keeping it to myself for emergency-purposes

>>12327127
You technically could still do dim sum as it’s supposed to traditionally pair well with tea. I just decided to try something far reaching but not necessarily “easy.”
Next round will not be an ingredient theme.

Went to check out the local ethnic supermarket and jesus those guys have a lot of different teas. There's even a pure linden tree one, for those mornings when you want a steaming hot mug of jizz.

really want to do something savory with jasmine tea but will probably do a braised black tea dish

>>12329296
How would you know that certain teas taste like jizz?

>>12329854
Kenyan tea

>>12329854
Extrapolating from the smell of the tree blossom. Also I bought it and it's kinda like drinking hot water while someone whips a cumrag around the room.

>>12331134
God, imagine the umami

Bump
Post your ideas/developments

>>12333334
was originally going to do a black tea braised dish. now switching to doing something raw and using two different kinds of tea. one of them is matcha (unoriginal) but i hope you all find the second choice of tea an interesting/fun one in a savory context

Now when we say “tea” are we talking about having to use camellia sinensis the plant or the general process of “making tea” which is steeping any variety of herbs?

>>12333443
The one that isn't pure autism.

>>12333458
that’s not very helpful

>>12333443
Doesn't matter, as long as it's an implementation of "tea" or the tea plant it doesn't matter as long as /ck/ thinks it fits the theme.

>>12334124
so once again you're asked a direct question and instead of simply answering it you give vagueness. i have tea bags that don't actually contain any actual tea plant, caramel and peppermint tea bags for example. when are you going to actually make some clear rules instead of just leaving it up for the competitors to figure out after the dishes have already been submitted. you fucking suck at this so much.

i want to see someone submit a tea broth herb soup something or other

>>12334338
>There are no restrictions to the type of dish that will be made other then that the dish must exhibit the qualities of tea and that tea be used as the primary feature of the dish!

It's up to the voters to decide. You won't be disqualified, but I suspect there will be a couple of people who will score you a 0 for challenge goals if you use herbal teas.
Personally I wouldn't mind, as long as your entry was creative and appealing.

I can't believe anyone still does a /ck/ challenge. I think I participated in 2014

I need some advice anons. One element of my dish is tea-stained eggs. The idea is that you boil eggs to desired done-ness, crack the shells all over and sit overnight in a strong tea solution.
I just peeled my eggs, and they were beautifully stained with weblike patterns. Until I broke the this membrane just under the shell. The staining had barely penetrated underneath.
I wanted to submit today, but I don't want to post anything without the eggs.
So do I try again, leaving the eggs for longer in the solution? Do I leave the membrane intact?
Pic related is my current, very subtly stained eggs.

>>12335474
Another, more traditional method tells me to boil eggs for three hours in tea, but I was hoping to maintain a soft yolk.

>>12335233
Which is why ew bed a firm ruling. I'm not going to make jack shit until I know whether or not I'm going to take it in the ass for using herbal tea. This shouldn't have to be a fucking guessing game.

Experimenting with rehydration. Green on the left, Oolong on the right.

Make mushroom tea

>>12335741
Looks like the booger sheet id have under my bed as a kid

>>12335572
Literally just fucking use tea in the dish, that’s the fucking requirement. All everyone’s saying is that some anon’s ideas of “tea as the centre ingredient” will be different because of individual approaches to judging the challenge: Stop being autistic.

>>12335492
Most recipes I saw called for soy sauce. I’m guessing you need something much darker in your marinade to get the stain to show
>>12335572
Imo, ambiguity leaves room for trying more abstract ideas at the cost of taking that risk to guess. I’d give you points for herbal tea; if a toast sandwich counts as a sandwich, herbal tea counts as tea imo

Hand-cut Green tea Noodles, Black tea-stained egg, Stir-fry with deep fried Oolong Leaves and garlic, Laphet Thoke (Burmese Fermented Tea-leaf salad)

>>12336518
Almost forgot the timestamp, as always.

>>12336518
The brown liquid in the eggshell is sweet soy sauce. Noodles were savoury and satisfying but I would have liked them to be thinner (they swelled during cooking). Laphet Thoke is usually served as part of a salad, but I made it quite thin and saucy. It had really strong flavours of ginger, lime and green tea. The sweet soy counteracted the astringency of all the tea. I covered the fried Oolong tea leaves in cornstarch and deep fried with garlic slices until golden.

>>12335892
And I’m asking for clarification if by tea he means the literal tea plant or the general term of tea which can be any number of different herbs that can been steeped in liquid. He’s not giving clear guidelines.

>>12336518
>>12336524
>submitting a pic for ants
>>12336660
It's not up to OP to make clear rules about the challenge goals; it's up to the people voting. That's how it's always been. Personally, I'll count pretty much anything that's typically drunk as "tea", but if you make a court-bouillon out of aromatic shit that nobody drinks on it's own and try to pass it off as "tea" because you steeped it and then used it as a poaching liquid I'll call that a stretch.

Tisanes, tisanes!

>>12336518
>>12336524
Looks tasty, I'd love a recipe especially on how you did the noodles.

Tiki Peepeepoomer

>>12336660
If you can’t decide at this point and just want to continue berating the OP I’d rather see you just drop out and make room for ion; I expect they’d gleefully participate instead of this pussyfooted complaining every day

I'm gonna risk it, I will make a salty dish
My winning streak ends now

>>12336550
Howd the fried tea leaves taste? doesn't seem apetizing to me.

>>12335492
Maybe you could sous vide them at a temperature below which the yolk sets for a really long time. I don't have a machine, but I've found that my largest pot over the lowest flame settles at about 65˚C.

>>12337764
Gargle my balls. Asking for a simple clarification isn’t complaining and getting a straight answer shouldn’t be like pulling teeth.

>>12337849
>believing the sous vide meme

>>12337997
Shut up Tiki

>>12337997
you asked politely here >>12333443 and got a direct answer the same day >>12334124 along with people doing the actual voting saying they'll give you points for herbal tea >>12335233 >>12335892 >>12336471 >>12336730
but kept asking >>12334338 >>12336660
if that direct response to OP wasn't you then sorry but seriously, the answer has been spelled out. OP doesn't care how you define or use "tea" and sounds like at least 3 voters are more than OK with using an herbal tea to satisfy the theme.
we had coffee cake and toast submitted as a "sandwich" and crepes and leftovers submitted for rice. it either pays off or doesn't, that's part of the game. if you want something low risk high reward just use literal tea with established flavor pairings and focus on plating

>>12327118
>Nobody here is going to make a tea smoked geoduck ceviche in a fucking ice sculpture with a shooter chute that hot oolong beef broth is going to be pour down upon serving with a fucking slow smoked persimmon slaw wrapped in ti leaves with pork and butter fish.